That's a big bomb
 

A freakin' 700 ton bomb? Yikes!

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....wxde5ocl.html

I hope this will be covered well by the media in the area before it happens. It could freak people out. (Not that you can see out from a casino.) Ha ha. :D

Why do I have the video of 99 luftballoons in my head?

And this

A conservative 1985 estimate of the total world aresenal (don't know if it was nuclear or nuclear + conventional) put the number at around the equivalent of 10 tons of dynamite per human being.

Holy cow!

Anyone remember the movie 'The Day After'? Scared the poop outta me as a kid.
:eek:

Wow!

That could just possibly be the biggest bomb since Chicken Little.

Sorry, the number was more like 4.5 tons of TNT-equivalence per capita. That's only including nuclear arms, and it was 1982, not 1985. Whether there might be more or less nuclear firewpower now...who knows. Disaramament treaties surely have reduced the number of warheads lying around, but advances in technology surely have made those the do exist more powerful. And even a small fraction of that is still a staggering number.

A little bit of perspective on what a 700 ton bomb means:

1 pound of TNT in a car kills everybody within and leaves a fiery wreck.
10 pounds totally demolishes the average suburban home.
1000 pounds [that's one half of one ton] packed inside an old German tank sent the turret to disappear in low overhead clouds.*

So, imagine 1400 German tanks lined up in the Nevada desert...

*Quoted from the book Metamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter, attributed therein to one Wolf H. Fahrenbach

And I would figure the explosives being used in the bomb are more powerful than TNT. not that I am any sort of demolition expert.

700 tons is not the literal weight of the bomb. When talking about the "tonage" of a bomb, it refers to the explosive force and means that "X number of tons of TNT would produce the same force explosion."

Ahhh...here I was figuring how they were ever gonna drop something that big anywhere. Don't I feel a bit stupid....

I did, of course, realize that was how nuclear weapons were rated....I did not think that 20 kiloton nukes required thrust to launch an actual 20 kiloton (in weight) bomb. I did not realize all other explosives were done in the same way.